Nature’s Optical Wonders – The Northern Lights
What is the color of the sky? Most of the people’s answer will be blue or orange. But there are places on earth where the color of sky changes. I was shocked to hear that and wanted to know why is this happening? Then I got to know few very interesting facts about this. This changing of color of sky is also known as Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis.It is Nature's optical displays in the sky, Spectacular electric phenomena called auroras illuminating the night skies near the polar regions!!!,
A question struck my mind. Why the sky above me has the same color always and why does not color of the sky change here. Then I got to know that this phenomenon only happens in places with high altitudes. So they mainly occur near poles.
The scientific reason involved in this is that collisions take place between solar winds and magnetic particles which cause a pattern in the sky.
Leaving behind the scientific reasons and all I would like to concentrate mainly on interesting facts about this Nature’s Optical Wonders – The Northern Lights.
- Basically it is visual wonder to watch. And the other thing is that once formed pattern will never repeat.
- Apart from spectacular display Northern lights also produce faint sounds and clap due to which people living in those areas used to get frightened.
- The most spectacular Northern Light was recorded on August 28th and September 2nd in the year 1859. These was caused due to “Great Geomagnetic Storm”. Scientists say that if a storm of that magnitude occurs today, it would cause a lot of problems to our civilization.
- We see only one end of the Northern Light but if we want to see other end of it then we need to go to space!!!
· The very best moment for watching aurora is when the auroral arcs reach furthest toward the equator and the magnetic pole is in between the observer and the Sun. This special time is called magnetic midnight.
- No two Northern Lights are same. They are always of different colors and different patterns.
- Green is the most common color of Northern Lights. These form nearly 60 miles from earth and if it is a red colored pattern then it may be nearly 400 miles away from the earth.
- As earth forms Northern Lights, other planets in our solar system also form these patterns due to their magnetic field
I don't know about magnetic midnight. Thanks for sharing the best northern lights viewing times.
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